Spiritual Direction +
Spacious Accompaniment
A spiritual director is trained to ask you the questions — to help you enter into whatever it is more fully, so that you can begin to discern what Spirit is up to in even this. This chaos, this turmoil, this joy. This challenge. This obstacle. This dark night of the soul.
- Rob Bell on the“You Listening to You” | Robcast
True belonging comes from the inside, but we get a feel for it as we experience belonging in a relational field.
Becoming is a slow, steady, non-linear process that happens in the context of living our lives. We don’t need to rid ourselves of our “us-ness.” It is the raw material we’ve been given for this human journey.
We can deepen our capacity to witness and welcome “what is,” to ground and resource ourselves, to know and soften into unknowing.
It is my delight to offer spacious presence. Together, we name, contextualize, wonder, and listen — we slow down to savor tiny signs of what’s emerging.
Each appointment is a plot point on your journey. I hold the long arc of your story in love when you are "in it," reminding you of who you already are.
Belonging As You’re Becoming
Developing Fluency in Your Inner Landscape
Learning and accompaniment as you develop familiarity with your inner world. Attune to the granular somatic cues that help you witness what’s happening inside in real time with love and compassion.
I am familiar with this obscure terrain in the spiritual landscape and see it as fertile ground worth lingering in. If anchoring into the presence of another who will bear witness and not rush you out of the dark seems like something you’d like to try, I’d be honored to hold space for you.
Deep Listening in Transition
Having a companion as we sift and sort, open to wisdom, and listen for “the thing under the thing” while the ground is shifting can be stabilizing. This is a space for me to support you as you listen deeply to what’s already in you.
Bringing Curiosity & Context
I bring lenses, contextually and organically, that may support you in opening to wisdom. With your consent, I offer these with great spaciousness.
Focus Areas
Listening Deeply Together
You get to choose how we begin. We transition from the pace of life into the rhythm of presence. And then we talk.
Conversation, silence, questions.
We may open with curiosity to an interaction you’ve been ruminating on, awe you experienced unexpectedly, doubt that’s lingering in your awareness, something that you sense or feel that you can’t quite name.
We are ALWAYS attuning to your experience in our times together; sometimes I engage more actively and sometimes I listen for the entire session. You have agency in the space.
Each one is troubled by the ultimate questions. And no one else’s answer can satisfy the hunger in your heart. The beauty of great questions is how they dwell differently in each mind, how they root deeper than all the surface chatter and image. How they continually disturb. Your deep questions grow quickly restless in the artificial clay of received opinion or stagnant thought, and if you avoid this disturbance and try to quell these questions, it will cost you all your peace of mind. Sooner or later, every one of us must come to our contemplative longing and gain either the courage, the recklessness to begin our own contemplative journey.
-John O’Donohue